North
Pole Village. He's even older than Santa Claus. He's about
three feet tall, skinny and wrinkled up as a baked apple.
Shinny is as crusty as week-old bread, but despite all his
huff and bluster, he has a good heart and a true devotion
to Santa Claus.

Shinny wears a makeshift copy of Santa's outfit that he
says he created somewhere around 400 or 600 years ago. (Shinny
says that after such a long time, a century here and a century
there don't really matter a whole bunch.) As pieces of the
outfit wear out and fall off, he replaces them with makeshift
hunks, chunks and patches. Shinny is definitely on the cutting
edge for creative attire.